The Trick Douglas Ford Madness Heart Press (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale The Trick is an exciting read, and I devoured it with a surprising quickness. Ford writes of the surreal, yet a reader is eased into every plot point so that the logic of the story is...
ELEMENT OF DOUBT: Ghost Stories A.L. Barker Valancourt Books, 2023 Reviewed by Mario Guslandi Audrey Lilian Barker ( 1918-2002) was a prolific author of novels and short story collections, now largely forgotten. The present volume reprints her collection Element of...
Thirteen Plus-1 Lovecraftian Narratives Nancy Kilpatrick NKPublishing (May 14, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale In Thirteen Plus-1, Nancy Kilpatrick has pulled together stories from prior publications that hearken to the style of Lovecraft. While the stories were...
Everything the Darkness Eats Eric LaRocca CLASH Books (June 6, 2023) Reviewed by Andrew Byers Eric LaRocca is one of the big names in contemporary horror fiction, a kind of wunderkind whose work has regularly gone viral. I’ve had the chance to read his short fiction...
What Moves the Dead T. Kingfisher Tor Nightfire (July 12, 2022) Reviewed by Carson Buckingham T. Kingfisher, author of the splendid book The Twisted Ones, has once again hit it out of the park with her novella, What Moves the Dead. Having read Poe’s “The Fall of the...
Little Mutilations: Three Body Horror Novellas Jess Landry, Sofia Ajram, & Nadia Bulkin Crystal Lake Publishing (April 25, 2023) Review by Elaine Pascale It is probably unnecessary to announce that I loved an offering from Crystal Lake Publishing. I have read most...
